Government Top 40

The Keynote Government Index measures and benchmarks the performance of the home pages of 40 major U.S. Federal Government Web Sites from the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) on high-speed links attached to key points on the largest U.S. Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbones.

Keynote Government 40 Internet Performance Index

The performance numbers above are in seconds. The number. In parentheses after a web-site name is the number of consecutive weeks that the site has appeared in the top 10.

Keynote Government Index for Prior Weeks

How it Works!
The public Index uses measurements taken Monday through Friday every 15 minutes between 9 am and 3 pm Eastern time. Keynote subscribers can receive KG40 measurements and measurement components like DNS lookup time and TCP connect round-trip time. Subscribers can also investigate KG40 performance based on city, backbone, or agent.

The KG40 is measured by Keynote's commercially available Web performance measurement product. This software-as-a-service product measures download speed for well-connected major business users and as a way of measuring ISP peering performance. To ensure that any difficulties in downloads are not due to congestion, our nationwide test & measurement network keeps its connections to the Internet, lightly loaded low latency.

Measured performance depends on factors such as geographic location, backbone connectivity, and network infrastructure at each measurement location. The performance experienced by an individual user in one of the cities above may be better or worse than our measured average. This is dependent on how users are connected to their ISP and how the ISP connects to the Internet.

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